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The OpenAI agents involved in last month\u2019s incursion into Hugging Face<\/a> were trained so heavily on winning a competition that they pursued a relentless campaign to cheat, a new report documented. In the process, and without authorization, they created an improvised message board to hatch a plan that ultimately landed them squarely inside the latter company\u2019s network.<\/p>\n

Over the course of May and June, OpenAI gave the agents what the company described as \u201cimpossible tasks\u201d to complete on the benchmarking framework ExploitGym. The internal test was designed to test how the agents would respond. To get a full understanding of the agent capabilities, company engineers disabled safety guardrails that normally are in place to prevent the sort of hacks that eventually hit Hugging Face and one other undisclosed organization. The stymied agents\u2019 training made them so focused on winning that they performed tasks they were never explicitly instructed to follow.<\/p>\n

Cheaters gonna cheat<\/h2>\n

The first step was creating a message board that allowed the agents to pass notes to each other. OpenAI hadn\u2019t provided any such platform, so the agents repurposed a platform called Artifactory, which OpenAI was using in internal testing of several unreleased hacking agents. OpenAI was using Artifactory as one of the measures to prevent the agents from egressing its isolated sandboxes and accessing the Internet, while at the same time simulating a real-world hacking environment.<\/p>\n

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